Blogging assesment

1) Comparing these blogging assignments to traditional essays, I’d have to say I found these blogs easier for me. We still were required to think and use what we had learned throughout the semester but we were given topics that we could choose ourselves. This made it a bit easier because we could pick a topic that we each found relative to us. It also seemed a bit easier because we could have fun with it and use hyperlinks to show what we were talking about and integrated the internet with our assignments. Given the choice between writing a traditional essay and doing one of these blogs I would definitely choose the blog.
2) The blog assignments did relate very well to the class topics and what we were covering in our classes. Because we were given so many topics to choose from we could really take the assignments and cover what we felt like. If we thought one thing was more important over another then we could pick that topic and try to convey why we thought that topic was more important than the others. This way everyone could connect to something on a personal level. Not only did the topics relate to the class they also related to the individual doing the blog.
3) The non-text elements did contribute to learning over the semester. Like one of our assignments put forward, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. These non-text elements could show your audience what you were trying to say. In this way they were not only looking at your words and taking your words as fact, they could also look at the videos or sights and draw their own conclusions. If you read something that’s one thing, but seeing something is a totally different thing. Seeing is believing.